Twitter revealed Friday that it has increased its efforts to stop
ISIS-related activity on the social network by suspending
suspected terrorists' accounts and hiring staff to monitor the
network for terrorist activity. In a blog post, the San
Francisco-based social media giant claimed it has supended more
than 125,000 accounts over the past seven months for threatening
or promoting terrorist acts or agendas. Most of the
suspended accounts, the company added, belonged to persons
suspected of belonging to, or supporting, ISIS. "We condemn the
use of Twitter to promote terrorism," the post declared,
“As the nature of the terrorist threat has changed, so has
our ongoing work in this area.” Cyber-security experts in
recent months have expressed alarm at the ease in which ISIS and
other terror groups have used social media to lure disillusioned
people, even Americans and Europeans, to join their cause.

In addition to suspending suspected terrorists'
accounts, Twitter said it has increased its division responsible
for reviewing alleged terrorist activity on its network, allowing
the company to greatly improve their response time when a
terrorist-related complaint is filed. Similar internal
changes have taken place at Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft
and LinkedIn, all of whom have voiced support for President
Obama's efforts to improve technologies to make it easier to
track down terrorist activity on the Internet. The issue
has also been prevalent in the ongoing presidential campaign
season, with Republican frontrunner Donald Trump suggesting that
the Internet be shut down in certain parts of the world to
prevent terrorists from recruiting with it.

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